Happy Birthday to Dad!

Today is my dad's 67th birthday... I can't believe he's that old! I'm going to be making dinner and cake and all that jazz. My brother is bringing Dad up here, since he doesn't get off work until 4 and won't feel like driving the 2 hours to my house after a full day's work. I can say I don't blame him for that... I don't think I would either. Being lazy, the menu for tonight is far less "exotic" than last year. Pork Chops in a Vidalia Onion Sauce, Potatoes Au Gratin, Broccoli... And then cake and ice cream for dessert of course. Dad, building up his arsenal some more, bought himself a new gun for his birthday... Which reminds me, I need to wrap his presents today as well...

Of course, the wrench in everything is that the Toyota died on base yesterday and we are down to just the van for now. I think it might be the alternator on it. We know it's not the battery (steve had left his headlights on all day and drained the battery) because we went and bought a new one thinking the battery was just too dead to jump (tried with 2 diff vehicles). It still wouldn't start. Wasn't getting any real power... Hoping it's something stupid and cheap like a fuse, but not likely knowing our luck with vehicles... argh!